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| het·er·o·zy·gote [ hèttərō z gt ] (plural het·er·o·zy·gotes) |
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organism with two dissimilar gene forms: an organism possessing two dissimilar forms of a gene for a heritable characteristic, which may therefore produce offspring differing from the parents and each other in that characteristic
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